IBM Loses UDRP On Despite TM Being 5 Years Older Than The Domain

IBM Loses UDRP On OpenPower.org Despite TM Being 5 Years Older Than The Domain 2013 June 24 by Michael Berkens Follow @TheDomains International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) just lost a UDRP in an attempted grab of the domain name OpenPower.org against White Label Energy GmbH The UDRP decision was originally published in German . Although IBM had a trademark on the term OPEN POWER which predated the domain name registration by some five years, the one member panel noted that IBM abandoned its Open Power product in 2006 and therefore found its was unlikely that the domain holder had the trademark in mind when it registered the domain. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: The trademark was registered on November 21, 2005. The disputed domain name was registered August 19th, 2010. The corresponding website contains only the following note: “The followi...